Amazing moment student found out she had highest possible GCSE grades

 

Amazing moment student found out she had highest possible GCSE grades after "overwhelming" year

Here's a round up of results from across Liverpool as students headed into schools this morning

 

GCSE results day at The City of Liverpool College pictured an overwhelmed Sara Saleh. Photo by Colin Lane (Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo)

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This is the amazing moment student Sara Saleh found out she had the highest possible grades in her GCSEs  after an "overwhelming" year.

 

The 29-year-old City of Liverpool College student, was "really surprised" to discover she had achieved all 9s on her GCSE science course, after taking a ten year break from education to look after her children.

 

Speaking of her outstanding achievement the mum-of-two to Jasmine and Fatimah, said: "I did it for my children."

 

 

GCSE results day at The City of Liverpool College pictured an overwhelmed Sara Saleh. Photo by Colin Lane (Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo)

Sara said: "I got all 9s today and I'm really surprised I wasn't expecting it so I'm really relieved that the results have come through.

 

"Its been a really intense year. Although it has been a simple course the amount of information and the intensity that we've had to go through throughout the year to study for the biology and chemistry has been a lot.

 

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"At some points its been quite overwhelming. It has all been new to me as well because I haven't been in education for a couple of years so to come back and have to face this I thought I was going to really struggle but I'm so glad with the results that came out today and they've just been much better than I thought they would be."

 

Sara said getting the grades has given her the confidence to apply to an access course, with the aim of going on to study dentistry at the University of Liverpool.

 

 

GCSE results day at The City of Liverpool College pictured an overwhelmed Sara Saleh. Photo by Colin Lane (Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo)

Sara's success story is one of many from across the city today, as students went into school to collect their GCSE results.

 

Here's our round up of the achievements of the day.

 

The City of Liverpool College

Another student from the City of Liverpool College who was "really proud" of her results was 19-year-old Ashton Tibbetts.

 

After a difficult year battling with depression, Ashton said she cried when she found out she'd got a place to do childcare at the college after receiving her results.

 

She said: "I've struggled a lot with my mental health. It started when I was 12 when my mum and dad got divorced.

 

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"If you're not in the right frame of mind it's difficult to make yourself come into college. I used to skip a lot of English and Maths because I couldn't bare my day.

 

"I used to go home and cry to my mum because I couldn't physically face getting up and going in and putting a smile on my face."

 

 

GCSE results day at The City of Liverpool College pictured Ashton Tibbetts. (Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo)

Despite going through a difficult time, Ashton says she "crawled out of the gutter" and went on to get the grades she needed to secure a place on a childcare course.

 

She added:"I turned it around because of the support of the college.

 

"Their mental health support team is amazing and the support of the tutors, they go above and beyond what they have to.

 

"I'm really proud of what I got and I got onto the course I needed to get on."

 

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